Pleasure Quotes

4661 Pleasure quotes by 2495 unique authors

Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is… — John Burroughs
Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy. — Myron Tribus
You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in. — Howard Gardner
The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance. — Benjamin Zander
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil. — Samuel Johnson
He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval… — Samuel Johnson
Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds… — Napoleon Bonaparte
The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery. — Seymour Papert
Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water,… — Cyril Connolly
The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor. — Clifton Fadiman
You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence… — David Shore
Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they… — Havelock Ellis
Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? — Confucius
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral. — Aristippus
Our homes need to be more Christ-centered. We should spend more time at the temple and less time in the pursuit of pleasure. We should… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
I would like to outlaw contraception... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure. — Joseph Scheidler
I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure. — Woodrow Wilson
The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold!… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain. — Moliere
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich… — Unknown Author
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration. — George Bernard Shaw
Time is everything. Anything you want, anything you accomplish - pleasure, success, fortune - is measured in time. — Unknown Author
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does… — Mother Teresa
The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is… — Freya Stark
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine… — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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